UCOMM Live

Rick Smith from The Rick Smith Show joins us to talk about Presidential politics and give us some insight into the 2020 election. Wes McEnany from the Communications Workers of America (CWA) called in to explain their organizing drive of tech and game workers. Plus minimum wage increases save lives, a law firm in Texas is preying on public employees, Columbia Sportswear is organizing over Band-Aids, and Trump is mum on AT&T outsourcing jobs.

We have the AFT's Randi Weingarten on to talk about the Rochester School District firing 150 teachers in the middle of the year. We also discuss 41% of employers breaking the law to stop a union and the NLRB making it harder to join a union. Plus Trump is getting impeached, the AFL-CIO is supporting USMCA, and minor league ball players are getting high this holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Injuries are sky-high at the Amazon facility in Staten Island and deaths are up in the last year nationwide. At the same time, union construction sites are proving to be the safest around, maybe the Amazon workers need to talk union? Google workers are talking union and the tech giant is trying to stop it, while Harvard Grad students are on strike for better wages and an end to harassment on the  job. Plus O'Malley stands up to Trump official and the Mets have a new owner.

The 2020 election is almost here and Mike Bloomberg is spending $100M on Anti-Trump ads. We have exclusive information from the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse and we ask why the Mayor is so dead set on imploding the building.  Mark Janus is back in court once again trying to get his $3,000 in union dues back.

We also have Chris, a Local 3 IBEW solar employee in studio. He worked for a company Bright Power, who fired him and the rest of his co-workers for joining a union. Plus Gary Jones is out as UAW President.

Plus it's National Save Apprenticeship week for the IBEW, we talk about Trump's effort to water down union apprenticeships.

Steelworkers are on strike in Minnesota, 25k are organizing at Delta, and we look at what a bad place Alabama is to live in.

The Huffpost wrote a 5,000 word story about how the word scab is becoming mainstream, Kapernick is getting a tryout, and Mets win the Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards.

AFGE's President is taking a leave of absence after accusations of sexual harassment. Should we cover stories like this? Some say yes, some no, we discuss.

Trump is getting booed everywhere he goes and unemployment is up in important swing states. Chance the Rapper is now the Chicago Teachers favorite after his appearance on SNL.

The UAW's President is forced out after leaders listened to last week's show. Elizabeth Warren's education plan is a game changer and the Mets hire Carlos Beltran.

UAW is still on strike at GM and sadly a member lost his life on the picket line. We have a UAW President on to talk about the strike and corruption within the leadership. Chicago teachers are still on strike and the Mayor's actions are making us wonder, can union's count on the Democrats?

Bernie Sanders and AOC had 26K at a rally in NYC, a lawsuit is filed against the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, and Facebook is being investigated.

On this week's show, we get into how ABC contractors are murdering construction workers in New Orleans. We have audio from the incident that is shocking the nation.

The UAW has an agreement with GM, but employees at Mack Trucks are now on strike.

Social Security checks are getting bigger, thanks to the Democrats from 1975. Plus teachers are on strike in Chicago, here is why.

Listen to LaGrange on Gerod's show here.

Listen to LaGrange with Will C, On the Board Sports here.

On this week's show, we have a leaked memo on Trump's plan to destroy federal unions as he orders agencies to follow his anti-union executive order.

In 2016 West Virginia repealed their prevailing wage law and the results are in for how bad that turned out.

We explain Elizabeth Warren and Julian Castro's plan to strengthen collective bargaining and AT&T is under attack from a vulture capitalist.

The GM Strike is in its third week, the UAW starts to pay out strike benefits while plants in Mexico begin to close.

Tesla gets caught union-busting and so does a Mentos plant in Bangladesh. They even had kids as young of 12 working there.

Unions are calling on Congress to pass the PRO Act and Senator Sherrod Brown wants to create a system to protect workers who lose their jobs due to automation.

Plus we have Will C in from On the Board Sports to talk about Mickey Callaway getting fired, the baseball playoffs, and who is going to win this Sunday.